>>Actually, it's quite typical for a government contract that was split between GUI and back-end and the two contractors never talked about what the other was expecting.
Right, but you have to use contractors rather than federal employees because the private sector is so much more efficient.. ;-)
Meanwhile elsewhere some wags observe that Republicans are incensed that something apart from government had to be shut down. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1